Spring support for ladies&#39; shoes



Dec. 1, 1931. s. N. COLEMAN v 1,833,962

SPRING SUPPORT FOR LADIES SHOES Filed March 18, 1950 Qua/mega.

Patented Dec. 1, 1931 UNITED STATES STEPHEN N. COLEMAN, OF SYLAGAUGA;

SPRING SUPPORT FOR LADIES SHOES 7 Application filed March 18, 1930. Serial No. 436,845. f

10 It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally andto enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the resent invention appertains.

With the above and other objects in view, which will appear as the description pro ceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes may be made in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, within the scope, of whatis claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention;

In the accompanying drawings constructed in accordance with the invention,

mounted in a womans shoe, parts being in section,

Figure 2 is a bottomplanof the shoe with the device forming the subject matter of this application mounted therein, parts being broken away;

Figure 3 is a plan of the article per se;

Figure 4 is an end elevation of the article shown in. Figure 3.

The numeral 1 marks a womans shoe ineluding a sole 2 to which is nailed a heel 3 having a thinned forward edge 14. I

In carrying out the invention, thereis provided ametal plate 4 preferably made of spring steel, including a body 5 ofapproximatelyrectangular outline, the body 5 being curved cross-wise, as shown at 6, so as to shape itself to the transverse curvature of the sole of tlieshoe immediately in advance ofthe heel 3. 'The plate 4 includes an entering portion-7, the edges of which converge to form a sin 1e point 8, located in the longitudinal' axis of the plate 4. The plate is I broadened, as shown at 9, where the entering.

Figure 1 shows in side elevation, a device portion 7 joins the body 5. There jropnings 10 in the body 5, and these openings are adapted to receive securing elements v11 -which, enteringthe sole of the shoe, holdthe plate inplace. y The point8 may be drivenbetween the heel 3 and the sole 2 of the shoe and will clear the nails that hold the heel of the shoe-in place. lBecause the metal plate 4 has the single point 8, the plate will drive straight so back above the heel 3, and will hold it in place; The broadened part 9 of the plate 4 comes immediately under the thinned edge 14 0f the heel 3, and thus the thinned edge 14 is given an increased lateral support, and 05 the thinned edge will not be likely toibe H broken. Theusualleather strip12 is carried backwardly over the exposed portion of V the plate 4, to hide it completely, the strip being secured to the forward surface ofjthe .10

heel3in the usual way. t Having thus described the invention,what isclaimedis: g I The combination with an article of footwear comprising a sole, and a' heel havinga thinned, upper, forward edge,-of a plate having a body and an entering portion, the enter- .ing portion having a single-point disposed.

in the longitudinal axis of the plate and located between the heel and the sole, the plate being broadened at the place Where the 1 entering portion is joined to the body, the broadened part of the plate being located immediately above the said thinned edge of the heel, to support said thinned edge,the' fort ward edge of thelbody of the plate being straight, at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the plate, symmetrical with respect to said axis, and almost as long as the width of,

the broadened part of the plate, to facilitate 9O the driving of the entering portion between the heel and the sole.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as i I V g y my own, I have hereto afiixed my signature,

STEPHEN COLEMAN, 9 

